From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 25 15:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437EA37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0Q08G100618; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:08:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101260008.f0Q08G100618@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: FreeBSDHW Subject: Re: Hard Drive cloning In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:47:46 PST." <200101252147.f0PLlkc05475@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:08:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Mike, > > I had never run into team before. It looks interesting. > > Have you any suggestions for reasonable values for 'team' to use for > dd? > > I assume the syntax would be: > dd bs=NNNNN if=/dev/adNsN | team NNNNN X | dd bs=NNNNN of=/dev/adNsN That's more or less what I'd recommend. To take best advantage of FreeBSD's "fast wide pipe" support, the block size should be > 64k; I've had good results around 1M. More than that is probably wasteful, and may run you out of physical memory... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message